SAG Awards -Julie Andrews/Dreamgirls get attention

[Pinguin]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 9:45am

Full list at the sag awards website: http://www.sagawards.com/PR_070104.htm

I'm particularly happy that Ryan Gosling got a nom for Half Nelson, which wasn't a shoe-in, but well deserved.

Updated On: 1/4/07 at 09:45 AM

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 9:52am

Lifetime Achievement to Julie Andrews!

[Pinguin]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 9:53am

oh yes! who could forget?

[AC126748]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 10:12am

Sadly, like the Golden Globes, they overlooked Catherine O'Hara's brilliant and hilarious turn in FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION.

[blueroses]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 10:18am

AC, that's a shame.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 10:19am

YAWN. Don't you all ever get tired of watching actors pat themselves on the back? I mean, all they're doing, is acting!

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 10:22am

I'm very happy for Dreamgirls. The Acting Ensemble nomination, plus the Producer's Guild nomination yesterday pretty much lock it for a Best Picture Oscar nomination.

Still no guarantees on a win.

And I'm happy for Jennifer and Eddie, although they were expected to be on there.

And I too am disappointed for Catherine O'Hara!

Letters From Iwo Jima was overlooked in both the PGA and SAG noms in the past two days. It's still a fairly solid bet for a Best Picture nom, but it's chances of winning are now slim to none.

[Pinguin]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 10:25am

I dunno, the DGA still hasn't announced nominations...and DGAs are a much better indicator.

IT AIN'T OVER :0)

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 10:31am

I'm sure Eastwood will be nominated for the DGA for Letters, which is why I think it will still be a Best Picture nominee for the Oscars.

But it will be very telling whether or not Bill Condon is nominated for a DGA. If he is, Dreamgirls will be securly at the front of the Oscar race. If not, the movie will still be sure to rack up Oscar nominations, and still receive a Best Picture nomination, but it will lose its "frontrunner" status for the top award.

[AC126748]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 10:36am

I posted the list of nominees over on ATC, and a poster brought up a very interesting point: Why are there only seven DREAMGIRLS cast members eligible for the Best Ensemble award, but BOBBY has 24 cast members eligible? The SAG people aren't even recognizing Sharon Leal as part of the ensemble. Makes no sense...

[Pinguin]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 10:37am

On the actor side, it is definitely throwing things having Leo in the supporting actor category for The Departed...I'm pretty sure that's not happening for the Oscars, so hopefully either Wahlberg or Nicholson will make the cut..

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 10:53am

AC126748 --- I agree, they should have included Sharon Leal and Hinton Battle. I believe the studio submits the list of who should be included, so I would say this was Paramount/DreamWorks's doing. They have their reasons, but I'm not sure why.


I was equally upset (if not more so) last year when Crash won the Ensemble award, and Loretta Devine was left off the list. Her scenes with Matt Dillon were terrific, and part of the reason the film got attention.

I don't think Loretta's part was big enough to be included on the Dreamgirls list, but Leal and Battle should be there.

I remember for "Chicago" (which also won), all the Cell Block Tango girls were on the list, so Maya has a SAG award, and she was basically in the chorus, with about 4 or 5 lines of dialogue during that one number. But Mirimax submitted their names for inclusion, so included they were!

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 11:03am

I think the SAG and PGA awards also show a really strong loyal following for BABEL, which a lot of people have predicting would fall off the Oscar Charts.

The critical rallying for UNITED 93 doesn't seem to have affected industry professionals either - though it is a small film with a cast of virtual complete Hollywood unknowns. It could still make the Oscar lineup.

I'm most curious about the fate of JIMA - it on the surface would seem indestructable: Clint directing the most critically acclaimed film of the year. But the movie had a late start out of the gate - and despite its pedigree - it seems that a 3 hour black and white film in Japanese is a film a lot of Oscar voters aren't going to get all the way through on their home dvd players (the preferred AMPAS way to watch these films).

I wonder if the subject matter won't also put off some of the older members of the Academy, who's Hollywood careers started in the very patriotic days immediately following the war.

I think the DGA is going to match the Oscar lineup closely, but I predict this is going to be another year where the director/picture race don't much match up.

And I do think one of those casualties will be Bill Condon.
Updated On: 1/4/07 at 11:03 AM

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 11:15am

I wish "House" was nominated in TV Drama series ensemble. I mean, Hugh Laurie is brilliant alone, but the other characters in the show is what makes it great.

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 11:40am

Actors make up the biggest branch of the Academy, and if they don't have recognized performances to sink their teeth into, as apparently SAG has felt with Iwo Jima, I would say it's no higher than "third" behind Dreamgirls and Departed for a possible Best Picture win. Maybe even fourth. Not a frontrunner anymore.

Critical acclaim and critics awards mean zero when it comes to the Oscars. Just look at Titanic (and many others in the past).

Here's the way the Academy membership is set up currently:

Actors 1260
Producers 461
Executives 429
Sound 415
Writers 396
Art Directors 378
Directors 376
Public Relations 371
Members at Large 283
Shorts/Feature Ani 316
Visual Effects 249
Music 237
Editors 224
Cinematographers 186
Documentary 134
Makeup 115

Total 5830

Each branch can only nominate in their selected category (actors nominate actors, editors nominate editors, etc.), but all members nominate in the Best Picture category.

And the entire membership votes in all categories on the final ballot.

[AC126748]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 11:43am

Actors make up the biggest branch of the Academy

Ah, so that would explain why Martin Scorsese and the late Robert Altman have no Oscars for directing, but Robert Redford, Warren Beatty, and Clint Eastwood do...

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 12:30pm

You can add Mel Gibson in there too.

And you can "exclude" Hitchcock, who never won one either.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 12:31pm

It's a conspiracy, I tell ya.

[broadway86]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 3:51pm

Aside from the omissions of United 93, Catherine O'Hara, and Nicholson, I think it's an excellent lime-up. For the first time in a while, I think every nominee is outstanding, and deserves the recognition.

[colleen_lee]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 3:56pm

Chandra Wilson is the only individual nominee from Grey's Anatomy.

Interesting considering she is frequently overlooked by the other awards.

[blueroses]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 3:59pm

broadway86, I agree with you for the most part. But, in my opinion, Cloris Leachman wasn't all that special in Mrs. Harris. Bening certainly deserves her nomination, though.

I wish they hadn't dissed Big Love again. I can live without Paxton's nomination, but Chloe Sevigny, Grace Zabriskie, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Harry Dean Stanton were all REMARKABLE.

[Kringas]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 4:01pm

Why are there only seven DREAMGIRLS cast members eligible for the Best Ensemble award, but BOBBY has 24 cast members eligible?

More importantly, why hasn't Beyonce been blamed yet for this?

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 4:08pm

Finally some recognition for one of the most touching performances I saw the past year: Abigail Breslin in Little Miss Sunshine, I wonder if this means she still has a slim chance of getting an Oscar nod.
It was also pleasant to see Djimon Hounsou getting a nomination for his brilliant work in Blood Diamond, in my opinion, he outshined Leonardo DiCaprio throughout the whole film. Eddie Murphy deserves his nomination but Hounsou deserves to win, IMO.
And good for Megan Mullally's nomination, she's a great actress.

[jv92]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 5:32pm

NO CATHERINE O'HARA!
Absolutely disgusting. The woman gave, in my opinon, the best supporting role by a female this year. Yes folks, she was even better than Jennifer Hudson (second best). Obviously the National Board of Review agrees with me, but it's sad that the Hollywood Foreign Press, SAG and probably Oscar voters don't

[fflagg]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 11:33pm

The problem is that the film tanked and is only on one screen in NYC.